Thursday, June 27, 2013

T-Print: Draw an Architect – Part 2

By T-Square

These are some other participations:
Abdulaziz Lafi Al Anezy


Anonymous


Abdullah Ali


Ehsan Abdulrasoul


Abdullah Al Haddad


Ali Al Yousifi


Mejren Al Mejren



Monday, June 24, 2013

T-Print: Draw an Architect – Part 1

By T-Square

               For the third issue of T-Print, we asked the students and faculty of KU’s College of Architecture to sketch their idea of an architect around a pair of glasses that we provided. These are some of the participations:

WARNING: students’ creativity may surprise you!

Moodhy Al Bannai


Dr. Gio


Mishaal Al Musaileekh


Latifah


Lulwa Al Habashi


Ahmed Al Houli


Dr. Abdulmuttaleb Al Ballam


Ehsan Abdulrasoula

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Atari - The Restaurant with the Dark Green Façade

By Hessa Al Habashi


A post about a restaurant, because everyone else is doing it, but I think I’ll try something new. Everyone who’s met me knows how much I love food, and doing posts about restaurants will not only give me an excuse to go to new restaurants and review their architectural ‘elements’, but also, I get to eat. Who doesn’t love a math equation that goes like that? So from now on, every month, we’ll be reviewing the architecture of a selected restaurant around Kuwait, and to our delight, we have quite a concentrated amount of adequately designed restaurants in Kuwait.
This month’s pick is Atari. You might’ve passed by it a couple of times on your way to Slider Station/Prime & Toast. What caught my attention was the dark green façade; it makes anyone give it a second glance. It had a fun menu, and I might go back again, but since this is an architecture blog, no one comes here to hear what I have to say about the food, right? (unless you want me to, I won’t say no).

The place is small and cozy, two floors, and reminds me of the restaurants I see on TV. You know the ones owned by the couple that just had to open up their own restaurants. The kitchen and the seating area is separated by a wall with a small window looking into what the chefs are up to. The floors are paneled and reminded me of being in a bathroom, just a tad.

I think I’ve criticized the place a bit too much, maybe I should go into compliments now? They have these little stickers around the restaurant which I really liked. It made me want to tour the place and look for them, and boy did I find a lot. What I also liked was the graffiti on the wall and on the tables of typewriters, TV sets and rabbits!

But aside from all that, I enjoyed the food and it was pretty quiet so I can’t complain (at least not more than I have already). The designer is Aseel Al Yaqoub, and the place is located in the Seef strip of restaurants where I also saw a cat watching me, look down for photos of said cat.





Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Who Took My Lizard?

By Ali Al Yousifi
Video by Lewis Chapman


Just enjoy!


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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Housing Kuwait’s Future – Part 2

By T-Square

This is a continuation of a previous post showcasing some of the work done by students enrolled in the Design 6 class this past spring semester. We are only showing renderings, while student’s original work included plans, sections, and elevations.


Student: Fatma Al Terkait






Student: Kawther Ashkanani




Student: Lulwa Al Habshi

Student: Saleh Al Fedaghi




Student: Shaikha Al Mutairi